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11 comments:

Thanks for the very useful info.Btw, did you by chance try to install visio viewer (vviewer.exe) in wine?It is more important for me because Openoffice is good for me to display and edit ms office files, but it is no visio alternatives for linux...

What a waste of time, obviously a Linux user does not understand the value of Open Office. You ruined Ubuntu!http://www.openoffice.org/

Open Office will open every specific file that you mentioned in your blog, though I have yet to confirm that the non-standard .docx, .pptx and .xlsx files will open via Novells converter.http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58~

Why should customers be forced/coerced into paying $150-$350.00 for updated software when everything they need is for free? Also, why bother changing formats to begin with? ODF has been around since 1994 more or less. If M$ really cared about its customers they would have used a “standard” format such as .odf, instead of attempting in cramming its proprietary format down everyones collective throats and paying off countries/people to grant ISO certification.

Which they failed at doing anyways. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39289089,00.htm

You as a user, are free to use any format that you wish. When 10-15 years from now, do not complain when your files will not open anymore.

Ussually it's easier to request the sender of the Word, Excel, Power point document to print it to PDF. PDFs have many advantages. It's most secure, and PDFs viewers (Acroread, Evince, ...) allow you to easilly rotate vertical/horizontal and zoon-in/out quickly, so it's much more confortable to read. All than needed is to setup the free PDF Creator printer in the windows machine where the document is beeing generated and print it to the given printer (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/)

Another really interesting feature is the possibility to export PowerPoint to a compact binary Flash file that can be embbeded in a web page!!! (Still the export is not perfect right now and many animations and visual effects are lost. Nevertheless export results are quite impressive).

note2: Some one told me that Gmail also have similar features for attached Office files.

This might save my life. I use Linux constantly and have run into major problems trying to run ppt/odp files with (gif) animations in OpenOffice. OpenOffice becomes extremely slow, but the wine solutions seems to work fine!

I'm getting the following error when I install the FileFormatConverters.exe. Can any body help?[root@localhost Desktop]$ wine FileFormatConverters.exe fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x33fc24) using GetSystemInfo()err:ole:COMPOBJ_DllList_Add couldn't load in-process dll L"msxml3.dll"err:ole:create_server class {2933bf90-7b36-11d2-b20e-00c04f983e60} not registeredfixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supportederr:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {2933bf90-7b36-11d2-b20e-00c04f983e60} could be created for context 0x17